This trend is also great for those of you who thought that tweezers were your friend and turned out to stab you in the back in the end. It help hides the fact that you only have a couple of hairs left at the tail end of your brow. It gives you back what those tweezers took away.
I am going to be honest, I was terrified of this trend. I normally just get my brows threaded and then leave them alone. I then decided if I was going to do this blog right then I needed to try things that I am not that comfortable with. So that is what I did. I went on Pintrest.com and learned all that I could about filling in and shaping my eye brows.
Let me tell you, it wasn't as scary as I thought. There are many ways to do them. I just picked which way worked best for me.
There are 3 main ways to do your brows. They are: Brow Pencil/Pen, Brow Gel, and Brow Powder. Every brand from drug store to Over the counter make-up brands have one or one of these options. If you are buying more expensive brand, where there are people at the store who can help you out, ASK for help! That is what they are getting paid for.
I found that the powder worked best for me. It was easier for me to start off lighter and add color if I wanted to make them darker.
I did learn that the three different options had one one thing in common. That one thing is an EYE BROW BRUSH. It helps you to do clean lines under and above your brow, and also helps spread the color throughout the brows.
This is an angel/brow brush. It is used to help smooth out pencil eye liner and to do your eye brows. This is from E.L.F. It cost me $3. I love E.L.F. They are a great for a non professional make up artist like myself.
I recommend for the first little bit, while getting used to doing your brows, is to keep things simple.
You just need to take the angle brush and pick a color that is a little darker then your natural brow color already is. Never go lighter! Just imagine the brow brush is a crayon and your brows are the image in a coloring book. Stay in the lines and keep it clean and simple. When you get better at coloring you can use a more advanced technique.
Over the last several days I did my eye brows three different ways. I wanted to show how eye brows really are the masters of our facial expressions. Which is why this trend is so fantastic.
Day one: I did my natural brow. Meaning that I didn't put any color on them and just brushed them down and added a little bit of watered down gel.
Day two: I wanted to be more dramatic with the brows. I went a little darker with the color to match closer to my brown roots then the blond in my hair.
Day three: I did a lighter brown powder to go better with the blond in my hair.
Don't be afraid to try it out for yourself. Try out all different ways till you find the one that works for you. Make up is all about trial and error. That is what makes it fun!
Remember readers, I may be a jack of this trade, but I am a master of none.
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